It definitely had that playoff atmosphere. It was two guys, going head-to-head, that are arguably our No. 1?s right now.
"Douglas Anthony Mirabelli" is a former Major League Baseball catcher. He played for the San Francisco Giants (1996–2000), Texas Rangers (baseball)/Texas Rangers (2001), Boston Red Sox (2001–2005), and San Diego Padres (2006) before returning to the Red Sox (2006–2007) to end his eleven-year career. He batted and threw right-handed.
Mirabelli was a career .231 hitter with 58 home runs and 206 Run batted in/RBI in 566 games. While with the Red Sox, he was well known as the personal catcher for knuckleballer Tim Wakefield. He was part of the Red Sox' World Series championship teams in 2004 and 2007.
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You want to come in here and sweep because you can extend your lead, but you don't want to get swept. By winning yesterday, there was a lot of pressure taken off this team as far as having to avoid a sweep today and leaving here with a one-game lead.
I've never been a Palmeiro fan.
His ball was darting in, it was darting away. It was effectively wild in the strike zone. I had a tough time today catching the ball. I hadn't had a game like that where I felt like I was going to have a hard time catching the ball.
Three games is still a lot.
The biggest thing was not coming in here and getting swept. That would have put a damper on where we?re trying to get to. We play these guys three more times. We knew that as long as we didn?t lose six times to these guys out of the last 20 games, we feel confident in our ability to win the East.
The big thing was not coming in here and getting swept.
I thought it was a really good pitch.
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